Before becoming President of Community College of Allegheny County, Alex Johnson was Chancellor of the 17,400-student Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana. Prior to this post, he was President of the Metropolitan Campus of Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio.

Among Dr. Johnson’s local board memberships are the Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans, PBS affiliate WYES, and Kingsley House. He serves nationally on the boards of the Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning and the American Council on Education (ACE), and is a member of the Commission on Women of ACE and the Commission on Research of the American Association of Community Colleges.